Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Watson, Thomas J.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Few great men could pass personal.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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