Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Dane, Frank

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

20.

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

Ford, Henry

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

25.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

30.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Morley, John

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Field, Marshall

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Revson, Charles

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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

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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.

50.

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

Onassis, Aristotle