Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

Hawken, Paul

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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 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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

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

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Ovid

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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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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

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Warren Buffett

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Proverb, German

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Adolt, H. V.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

David Letterman

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.