Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Malek, Fred

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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 consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bond, Alan

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin