Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb, American

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Morley, John

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

13.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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

34.

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

Blair, Tony

35.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

36.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

40.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Manzi, Jim

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Walton, Sam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.