Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Dickens, Charles

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dane, Frank

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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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