Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

10.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Basinger, Kim

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

George Ade

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

31.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bond, Alan

33.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Dickens, Charles

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.