Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Armour, P. D.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

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

Kiam, Victor

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Wang, An

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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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

Dickens, Charles