Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Walton, Sam

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

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

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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.

Buffett, Warren

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Patterson, John H.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.