Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

George Ade

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

11.

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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Patterson, John H.

21.

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

32.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Malek, Fred

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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