Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Basinger, Kim

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Mcnealy, Scott

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Galvin, Robert

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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

11.

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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

13.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

18.

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

19.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

20.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

21.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

32.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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.

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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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

41.

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

Barzan, Gerald

42.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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