Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

George Ade

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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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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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.