Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Iacocca, Lee

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Adolt, H. V.

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

George Ade

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

31.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Morley, John

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Gerber, Michael E.

42.

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

Proverb, German

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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