Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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

11.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

13.

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

18.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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.

21.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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.

25.

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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

27.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

28.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

32.

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

Galvin, Robert

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Mitchell Caplan

40.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

George Ade

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

Branson, Richard

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

Brown, Derby

46.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Hook, Harold

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

Ovid