Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Walton, Sam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Branson, Richard

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Malek, Fred

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bond, Alan

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde