Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Perot, H. Ross

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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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.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Basinger, Kim

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan