Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

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

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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Proverb, German

15.

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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Galvin, Robert

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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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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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.

Grove, Andrew

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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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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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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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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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

43.

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

George Ade

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy