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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Bond, Alan

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

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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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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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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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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

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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Dumas, Alexandre

39.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter