Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

David Letterman

11.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

12.

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

13.

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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

16.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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 five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

21.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

22.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

25.

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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

30.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

32.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

42.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Basinger, Kim

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