Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Nevill, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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.

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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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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

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Tara Hunt

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin