Motivational Quotes

Business

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Mitchell Caplan

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Malek, Fred

15.

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

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

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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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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.

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

31.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Walton, Sam

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.