Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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.

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

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

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

Blair, Tony

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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.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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.

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Proverb, German

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Riorio

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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.