Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

John Cleese

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

Dickens, Charles

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Walton, Sam

11.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

12.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Proverb, German

14.

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

Ovid

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

17.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

18.

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

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

23.

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

Revson, Charles

24.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Bond, Alan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

35.

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

Oscar Wilde

36.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

37.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

40.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

50.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.