Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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.

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

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Proverb, German

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

10.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

11.

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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

13.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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 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 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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

Perot, H. Ross

22.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

George Ade

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

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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.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

32.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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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.

36.

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

39.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

46.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

47.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

48.

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

49.

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

Watson, Thomas J.