Motivational Quotes

Business

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

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

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.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Warren Buffett

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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Aldus Manutius

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

George Ade

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

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott