Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Little, Royal

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor