Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobs, Randall

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Wang, An

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Branson, Richard

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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, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Morley, John

34.

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

Ovid

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Collins, Nathan

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ogilvy, David

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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