Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Field, Marshall

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

10.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

14.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

15.

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

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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

17.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

18.

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Ovid

22.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Adolt, H. V.

25.

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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

28.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

33.

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

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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

35.

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

36.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bean, L.L.

42.

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

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