Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, American

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Armour, P. D.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Galvin, Robert

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

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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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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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