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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Ovid

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

10.

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

Mitchell Caplan

11.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

15.

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

18.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Adolt, H. V.

22.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

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

Blair, Tony

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Wang, An

37.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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 did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bond, Alan

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

Proverb, German

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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