Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

10.

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

Walton, Sam

11.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

12.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Buffett, Warren

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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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

18.

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

Bond, Alan

19.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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

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

Welch, John

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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

25.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Galvin, Robert

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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