Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

George Ade

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Hook, Harold

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Revson, Charles

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.

42.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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