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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

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

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

Wang, An

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Blair, Tony

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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

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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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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.