Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Manzi, Jim

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Wilde, Oscar

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

13.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

20.

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

Revson, Charles

21.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

George Ade

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

Tara Hunt

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

30.

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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

32.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

33.

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

Blair, Tony

34.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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