Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- John Cleese

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

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

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

Field, Marshall

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Malek, Fred

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.