Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

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

Armour, P. D.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, American

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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 novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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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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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.