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

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

Dickens, Charles

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Dane, Frank

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Morley, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Malek, Fred

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.