Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

David Letterman

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

Cathcart, Jim

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Gerber, Michael E.

17.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

George Ade

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Hawken, Paul

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

38.

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

Proverb, German

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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.