Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Tara Hunt

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Walton, Sam

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Buffett, Warren

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hawken, Paul

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Riorio

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben