Motivational Quotes

Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bond, Alan

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

Hawken, Paul

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

16.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

John Cleese

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

23.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

25.

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

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

31.

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

Blair, Tony

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

George Ade

34.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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

Cardenas, Ruben