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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Hawken, Paul

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Oscar Wilde

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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