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

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

Revson, Charles

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Field, Marshall

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Manzi, Jim

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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 believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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.