Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hale, Sir Matthew

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jefferson, Thomas

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Field, Marshall

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

Bond, Alan

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

10.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

11.

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

12.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

13.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

Branson, Richard

19.

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

20.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

21.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Collins, Nathan

24.

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

25.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

26.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

29.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

30.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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

33.

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

Malek, Fred

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

37.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

38.

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

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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

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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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

49.

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

Morley, John

50.

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

Olsen, Kenneth