Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Knudsen, William

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

Gerber, Michael E.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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