Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Blair, Tony

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

11.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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

Malek, Fred

13.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

14.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

15.

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

16.

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

Barzan, Gerald

17.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

18.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

22.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

23.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

26.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

27.

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

John Cleese

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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.

29.

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

Manzi, Jim

30.

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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

32.

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

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

38.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

39.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

40.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

41.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

42.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

43.

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

44.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Adolt, H. V.