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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Brown, Derby

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

11.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Revson, Charles

17.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

18.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

19.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

20.

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

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

25.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Manzi, Jim

28.

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

Branson, Richard

29.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

30.

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

31.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

32.

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.

33.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

35.

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

Armour, P. D.

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