Motivational Quotes

Business

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

- Bean, L.L.

Best Quotes about Business

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

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.

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

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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

Proverb

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Branson, Richard

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.