Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

David Letterman

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

Dahlberg, Edward

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

34.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

George Ade

41.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

42.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

43.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William