Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Adolt, H. V.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

10.

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

11.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

12.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

13.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

15.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

16.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

17.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

18.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

19.

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

20.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

21.

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

Walton, Sam

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

23.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

26.

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

27.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

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.

29.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

30.

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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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

32.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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