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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Morley, John

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

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

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

David Letterman

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.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Blair, Tony

10.

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

11.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

12.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

13.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

14.

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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

18.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

20.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

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

Manzi, Jim

24.

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

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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

30.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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

Proverb, American

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

38.

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

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

42.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

43.

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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

46.

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

Proverb, German

47.

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

Iacocca, Lee