Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Blake, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Iacocca, 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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, American

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Wang, An

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bond, Alan

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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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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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