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

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Riorio

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Malek, Fred

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Little, Royal

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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