Motivational Quotes

Business

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

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

Collins, Nathan

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

15.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

17.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

18.

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

Walton, Sam

19.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

20.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

21.

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

Branson, Richard

22.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

23.

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

Forbes, B. C.

24.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

25.

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

Blair, Tony

26.

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

Manzi, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

30.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Field, Marshall

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

35.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

36.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

42.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

43.

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

44.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

46.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

47.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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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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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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