Motivational Quotes

Business

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

10.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

13.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

14.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

15.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

18.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

19.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

20.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

21.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

22.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

23.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

24.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

25.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

26.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

27.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

29.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

34.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

35.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

38.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

40.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

45.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

48.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam