Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Forbes, B. C.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Morley, John

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Hawken, Paul

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

19.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

21.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

George Ade

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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 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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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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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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.