Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

George Ade

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, American

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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 novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Little, Royal

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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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