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

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

Bean, L.L.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

11.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Forbes, B. C.

17.

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

Ovid

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

19.

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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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

24.

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.

25.

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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

27.

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

George Ade

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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 the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

38.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

40.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Dane, Frank

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Hook, Harold