Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Cardenas, Ruben

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

George Ade

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

Collins, Nathan

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Ford, Henry

12.

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

Bond, Alan

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

14.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

20.

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

Hawken, Paul

22.

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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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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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

28.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Malek, Fred

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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