Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Warren Buffett

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Proverb

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.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

24.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Armour, P. D.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

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

George Ade

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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