Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Morley, John

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

Hawken, Paul

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

10.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

11.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

12.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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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

15.

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

Adolt, H. V.

16.

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

17.

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

George Ade

18.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Cardenas, Ruben

22.

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

Perot, H. Ross

23.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

Aldus Manutius

29.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

30.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

31.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

32.

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

Wang, An

33.

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.

34.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

35.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

36.

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

37.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

38.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

40.

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

41.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

42.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

43.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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