Motivational Quotes

Business

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Patterson, John H.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Shakespeare, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hawken, Paul

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Bond, Alan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin