Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

George Ade

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Knudsen, William

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Little, Royal

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Kiam, Victor

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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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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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ovid

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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