Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Malek, Fred

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Wang, An

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

Ford, Henry

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.

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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.

25.

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

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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 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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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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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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.

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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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