Motivational Quotes

Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

David Letterman

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bond, Alan

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

18.

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

24.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

25.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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 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

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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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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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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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Field, Marshall

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

43.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.