Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dane, Frank

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

35.

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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

George Ade

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge