Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb, American

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

Riorio

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

Proverb

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Branson, Richard

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

25.

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

Blair, Tony

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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb, German

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

Bond, Alan

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

Jacobs, Randall

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

43.

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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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 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.