Motivational Quotes

Business

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

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

Bean, L.L.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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.

12.

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

Branson, Richard

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

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

Bond, Alan

16.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

18.

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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Cathcart, Jim

27.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

29.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

30.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

31.

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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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

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ogilvy, David

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

George Ade

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Ford, Henry

40.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

41.

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

43.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Ovid

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.