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

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

Proverb, German

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

Adolt, H. V.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Forbes, B. C.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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