Motivational Quotes

Business

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Manzi, Jim

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

11.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

12.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hook, Harold

17.

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.

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

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

Field, Marshall

20.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

21.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

22.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

23.

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

24.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

27.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

28.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

29.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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.

31.

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

Barzan, Gerald

32.

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

David Letterman

33.

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

34.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

37.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

42.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

44.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

45.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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