Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Branson, Richard

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

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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 a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Welch, John

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Oscar Wilde

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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