Motivational Quotes

Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Business

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

12.

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

Tara Hunt

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

25.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

30.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

33.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Warren Buffett

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.