Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Morley, John

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

Aldus Manutius

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dane, Frank

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Proverb, German

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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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

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

42.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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