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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Barzan, Gerald

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bond, Alan

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.