Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

10.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

11.

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

Basinger, Kim

12.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

13.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

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

Bond, Alan

15.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

17.

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

Grove, Andrew

18.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

22.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

23.

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

Hawken, Paul

24.

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

25.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Galvin, Robert

32.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

33.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

34.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

35.

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

George Ade

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, German

41.

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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Ford, Henry

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

45.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.