Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

David Letterman

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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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Field, Marshall

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

40.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

43.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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