Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Galvin, Robert

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb, American