Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Proverb

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Tara Hunt

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

Branson, Richard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren