Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

39.

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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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.