Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bond, Alan

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

10.

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

Ovid

11.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

12.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

13.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

15.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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

17.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

18.

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

19.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

20.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Armour, P. D.

23.

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

David Letterman

24.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

25.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

28.

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

Grove, Andrew

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

32.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

33.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

34.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

41.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

42.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

43.

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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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.