Motivational Quotes

Business

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

- Collins, Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

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

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.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

George Ade

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, German

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

Buffett, Warren

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Ovid

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Branson, Richard

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Warren Buffett

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.