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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

11.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

12.

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

Warren Buffett

13.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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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.

18.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

Wang, An

21.

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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Field, Marshall

26.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

27.

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

28.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

29.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

33.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

34.

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

35.

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

Armour, P. D.

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hawken, Paul

38.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

40.

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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

45.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.