Motivational Quotes

Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Best Quotes about Business

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

3.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

7.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Iacocca, Lee

9.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

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

16.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Morley, John

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

21.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

22.

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.

23.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

24.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

25.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

26.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

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

Ogilvy, David

29.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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

32.

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

Welch, John

33.

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

34.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

35.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Galvin, Robert

38.

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

Walton, Sam

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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

40.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

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

Ford, Henry

42.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

43.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.