Motivational Quotes

Business

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

- Basinger, Kim

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

11.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

12.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ovid

14.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

17.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

20.

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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Bond, Alan

24.

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

Ogilvy, David

25.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

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

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

34.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

George Ade

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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.