Motivational Quotes

Business

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Aldus Manutius

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Revson, Charles

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.