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 big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Morley, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Dane, Frank

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Malek, Fred

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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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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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Barzan, Gerald

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.