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

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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.

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.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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 your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Hawken, Paul

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ford, Henry

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Field, Marshall

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

George Ade

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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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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