Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blair, Tony

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

Wang, An

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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

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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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Aldus Manutius

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

17.

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

Cathcart, Jim

19.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

21.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

George Ade

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

Proverb, American

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 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