Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Walton, Sam

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Armour, P. D.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Bond, Alan

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.