Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

David Letterman

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

Morley, John

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

Proverb, American

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Aldus Manutius

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Malek, Fred

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason