Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

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

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Ovid

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Manzi, Jim

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Aldus Manutius

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Dane, Frank

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Branson, Richard

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

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale