Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Grove, Andrew

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

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

David Letterman

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

29.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

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

Morley, John

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Kiam, Victor

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Ovid

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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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