Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

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

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.

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

12.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

13.

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

Dickens, Charles

14.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

George Ade

18.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

19.

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

Ford, Henry

20.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

23.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

Rena, Peter

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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

27.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

28.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

29.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

30.

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

Barzan, Gerald

31.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

32.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

33.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

34.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

35.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

36.

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

Walton, Sam

38.

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

Perot, H. Ross

39.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

40.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

43.

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

Warren Buffett

44.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

45.

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

Field, Marshall

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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

48.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

49.

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

Thomas, Dylan