Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Proverb, American

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

Warren Buffett

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

30.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

33.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

35.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

45.

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

46.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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