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

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bean, L.L.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Brown, Derby

10.

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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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

Mitchell Caplan

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Ogilvy, David

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

31.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

George Ade

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

44.

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

Morley, John

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Cathcart, Jim

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