Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Bond, Alan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ovid

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

David Letterman

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Blair, Tony

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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 hard thing about business is minding your own