Motivational Quotes

Business

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Warren Buffett

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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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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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland