Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Walton, Sam

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

12.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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.

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

Bond, Alan

21.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Branson, Richard

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ovid

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

33.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore