Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Hawken, Paul

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Armour, P. D.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.