Motivational Quotes

Business

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Buffett, Warren

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Field, Marshall

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, 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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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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.