Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Rena, Peter

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

Ovid

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Dickens, Charles

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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