Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Forbes, B. C.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Ovid

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Proverb

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Morley, John

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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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