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

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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.

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

Proverb, American

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

Brown, Derby

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Blair, Tony

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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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 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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul