Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

10.

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

11.

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

Cathcart, Jim

12.

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

Knudsen, William

13.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

14.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

15.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

16.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

17.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

Dane, Frank

19.

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

20.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

21.

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

Manzi, Jim

22.

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

Morley, John

23.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

George Ade

25.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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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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

39.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

42.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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