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

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

George Ade

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Blair, Tony

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Manzi, Jim

10.

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

Brown, Derby

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

13.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Branson, Richard

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Aldus Manutius

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

20.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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 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 have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Armour, P. D.