Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Bond, Alan

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

Aldus Manutius

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blair, Tony

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

David Letterman

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul