Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riorio

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

11.

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

12.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Proverb, American

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Blair, Tony

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

Basinger, Kim

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

24.

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

30.

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

Bond, Alan

31.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

40.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Patterson, John H.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe