Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George Ade

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

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Morley, John

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kiam, Victor

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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.

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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