Motivational Quotes

Business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Dane, Frank

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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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.

33.

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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

39.

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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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 worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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