Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Warren Buffett

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Dane, Frank

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Ogilvy, David

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

27.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

28.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

33.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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

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

Field, Marshall

40.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

41.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

43.

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre