Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

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

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.

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, German

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Rena, Peter

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Ford, Henry

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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