Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Branson, Richard

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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.

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Revson, Charles

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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