Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wang, An

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Warren Buffett

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

10.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

13.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

14.

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.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Morley, John

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Forbes, B. C.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

32.

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 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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Hawken, Paul

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell