Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Malek, Fred

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

Galvin, Robert

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Warren Buffett

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American