Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

Field, Marshall

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

George Ade

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bond, Alan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, American

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor