Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

David Letterman

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

John Cleese

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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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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

25.

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

Proverb, American

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren