Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Armour, P. D.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

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

Blair, Tony

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Galvin, Robert

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Welch, John

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Ovid

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry