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

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

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

12.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Aldus Manutius

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Armour, P. D.

30.

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

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Warren Buffett

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Morley, John

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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