Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aldus Manutius

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

21.

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

David Letterman

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Ogilvy, David

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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

30.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

31.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

Collins, Nathan

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

39.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Galvin, Robert

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.