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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aldus Manutius

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gerber, Michael E.

19.

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

20.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Tara Hunt

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

31.

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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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Blair, Tony

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Ovid

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul