Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

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

Warren Buffett

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

Brown, Derby

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

George Ade

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

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

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Manzi, Jim

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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.

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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