Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

19.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

20.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

31.

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.