Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

10.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Patterson, John H.

18.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

19.

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

Malek, Fred

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Branson, Richard

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

41.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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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

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose