Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

David Letterman

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bond, Alan

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Proverb, American

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

Malek, Fred

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan