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

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

Ovid

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Dickens, Charles

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Baudrillard, Jean

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.

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

Blair, Tony

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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.

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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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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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