Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Armour, P. D.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

George Ade

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Branson, Richard

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

18.

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

Proverb, American

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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

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

David Letterman

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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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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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Little, Royal

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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.