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

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb, American

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Bond, Alan

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David