Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Cathcart, Jim

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Warren Buffett

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Bond, Alan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Ogilvy, David

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Morley, John

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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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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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 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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Revson, Charles

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

Wang, An

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Onassis, Aristotle