Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Little, Royal

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Aldus Manutius

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Patterson, John H.

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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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.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard