Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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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

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

David Letterman

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Basinger, Kim

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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

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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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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.