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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Blair, Tony

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Hawken, Paul

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Wilson, Charles E.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

10.

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

11.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

41.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

42.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dane, Frank

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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