Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Malek, Fred

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

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

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

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

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

12.

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

13.

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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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

George Ade

19.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

25.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

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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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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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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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.