Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ovid

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Wang, An

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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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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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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Branson, Richard

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

31.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

32.

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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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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.