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

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Galvin, Robert

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

17.

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

Malek, Fred

18.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

20.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.

23.

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

25.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

34.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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