Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Bond, Alan

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

Patterson, John H.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Manzi, Jim

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Branson, Richard

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Warren Buffett

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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