Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jacobs, Randall

Best Quotes about Business

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bond, Alan

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

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

Riorio

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Warren Buffett

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, American

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Wang, An

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Ogilvy, David

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John