Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

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

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Branson, Richard

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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

Proverb, American

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Blair, Tony

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Proverb, German

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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