Motivational Quotes

Business

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

- Hale, Sir Matthew

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Armour, P. D.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Dane, Frank

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Adolt, H. V.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.