Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Tara Hunt

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Morley, John

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malek, Fred

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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

Bond, Alan

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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

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

George Ade

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo