Motivational Quotes

Business

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

- Dunn, Paul H.

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, 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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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 a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Dane, Frank

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Revson, Charles

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Bean, L.L.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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.