Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

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

Walton, Sam

10.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

11.

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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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

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Kiam, Victor

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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 five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

David Letterman

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren