Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Wang, An

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Morley, John

10.

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

11.

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

17.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

25.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Warren Buffett

27.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Blair, Tony

33.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

34.

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

Galvin, Robert

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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

38.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

39.

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

Bond, Alan

40.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

44.

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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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Branson, Richard

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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.