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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Proverb, German

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Walton, Sam

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

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.

12.

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

Patterson, John H.

13.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

14.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

17.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

18.

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

19.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

21.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

22.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

25.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

26.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

30.

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

Malek, Fred

31.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

32.

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.

33.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

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

35.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

41.

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

Branson, Richard

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

44.

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

Revson, Charles

45.

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

David Letterman

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

Thomas, Dylan

47.

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

Dane, Frank