Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Buffett, Warren

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

George Ade

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

32.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Ford, Henry

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own