Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Blair, Tony

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Rena, Peter

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

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

12.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

21.

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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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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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Morley, John

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

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Ovid

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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