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 commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

10.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

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

13.

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

Malek, Fred

14.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

17.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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 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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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

23.

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

Bond, Alan

24.

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

Morley, John

25.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

26.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

27.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

28.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

29.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

30.

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.

31.

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

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Barzan, Gerald

35.

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

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Aldus Manutius

38.

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

39.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

40.

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

Blair, Tony

41.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

42.

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

Wang, An

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

David Letterman

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.