Motivational Quotes

Business

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Little, Royal

10.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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 dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

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

Grove, Andrew

19.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

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

Blair, Tony

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

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

25.

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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

34.

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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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.

Mcgovern, William

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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