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

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

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Buffett, Warren

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.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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 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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

24.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

25.

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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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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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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Proverb

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

Blair, Tony

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

35.

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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Warren Buffett

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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

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

Ovid

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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

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.