Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Morley, John

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

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

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

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Hawken, Paul

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Warren Buffett

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

David Letterman

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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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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

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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