Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Manzi, Jim

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

George Ade

10.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

11.

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

12.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Warren Buffett

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Morley, John

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Ovid

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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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

David Letterman

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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.