Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hook, Harold

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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.

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

Patterson, John H.

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.

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

George Ade

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

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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 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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Revson, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Malek, Fred

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Oscar Wilde

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Welch, John

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, 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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.