Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Brown, Derby

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

George Ade

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

10.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

12.

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

13.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Field, Marshall

20.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

24.

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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

33.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

34.

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

Cathcart, Jim

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ford, Henry

40.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Tara Hunt

42.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

43.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

46.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Barzan, Gerald

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