Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

10.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

11.

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

Dane, Frank

12.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

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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

15.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Proverb

17.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

18.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

23.

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

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

30.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

33.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

35.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

37.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Collins, Nathan

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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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

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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