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

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

Branson, Richard

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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.

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

Aldus Manutius

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, German

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Wang, An

23.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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

33.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Basinger, Kim

40.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

41.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

43.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

46.

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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