Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Thomas, Dylan

Best Quotes about Business

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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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

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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Branson, Richard

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Proverb, American

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell