Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Morley, John

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

41.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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