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

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

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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Forbes, B. C.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

George Ade

12.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Aldus Manutius

17.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

18.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

19.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

24.

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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hawken, Paul

29.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

34.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

35.

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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

40.

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

41.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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 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