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

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Proverb, American

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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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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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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dane, Frank