Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

10.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

11.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

13.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

23.

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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

27.

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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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

34.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

35.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Malek, Fred

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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