Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Shakespeare, William

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Walton, Sam

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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