Motivational Quotes

Business

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Adolt, H. V.

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.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

David Letterman

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Field, Marshall

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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.