Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

George Ade

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

Ovid

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Branson, Richard

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.