Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

George Ade

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Cathcart, Jim

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde