Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Armour, P. D.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Proverb, German

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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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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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.