Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Bond, Alan

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Patterson, John H.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Oscar Wilde

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Proverb, German

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

Cathcart, Jim

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Hawken, Paul