Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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 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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

33.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

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

Proverb, American

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, John

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