Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Welch, John

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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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.

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

Branson, Richard

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Aldus Manutius

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hawken, Paul

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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