Motivational Quotes

Business

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

- Scrutton, T. L.

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

10.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

11.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

19.

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

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

21.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

22.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

23.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

24.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

30.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

31.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

33.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

34.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

36.

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

Ogilvy, David

37.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

39.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

40.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

42.

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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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

44.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

Malek, Fred

50.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross