Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hook, Harold

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

John Cleese

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

George Ade

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ovid

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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