Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Walton, Sam

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

George Ade

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.