Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Manzi, Jim

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Aldus Manutius

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Walton, Sam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Malek, Fred

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.