Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Walton, Sam

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Hook, Harold

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rena, Peter

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bond, Alan

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

George Ade

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Dickens, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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.

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

Hawken, Paul