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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Ovid

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

Branson, Richard

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

12.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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.

Mcgovern, William

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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.

20.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

24.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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