Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Shakespeare, William

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

12.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

13.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Armour, P. D.

18.

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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Proverb, German

25.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

33.

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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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A dinner lubricates business.