Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

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

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.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Kiam, Victor

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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 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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Iacocca, Lee

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