Motivational Quotes

Business

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Dahlberg, Edward

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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 has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

David Letterman

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Barzan, Gerald

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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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 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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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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.