Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Grove, Andrew

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Proverb

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Blair, Tony

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Malek, Fred

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Proverb, German

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.