Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Cathcart, Jim

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Bean, L.L.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Ford, Henry

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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.