Motivational Quotes

Business

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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Best Quotes about Business

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Walton, Sam

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Aldus Manutius

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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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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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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.