Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cathcart, Jim

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hawken, Paul

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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.