Motivational Quotes

Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Business

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

Morley, John

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

Malek, Fred

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

Walton, Sam

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

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

12.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Revson, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Basinger, Kim

31.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

32.

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

Bond, Alan

33.

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

Proverb, German

34.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, American

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb

49.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall