Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Hawken, Paul

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Patterson, John H.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bond, Alan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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