Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

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

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

Kiam, Victor

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Shakespeare, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Proverb

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Morley, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.