Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

George Ade

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Branson, Richard

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

David Letterman

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

10.

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

11.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

12.

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

Bond, Alan

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

16.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

17.

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

18.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

20.

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.

21.

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

Walton, Sam

22.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Revson, Charles

28.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

32.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

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

Galvin, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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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

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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