Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dickens, Charles

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Bond, Alan

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

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

Warren Buffett

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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

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

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

Field, Marshall

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Wang, An

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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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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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Herzen, Alexander

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Dahlberg, Edward