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

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Ovid

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

Bierce, Ambrose

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, 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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

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

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bond, Alan

42.

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

Warren Buffett

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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.

44.

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 don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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