Motivational Quotes

Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Morley, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Revson, Charles

19.

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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

22.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

34.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

35.

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

Blair, Tony

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.