Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Proverb, American

12.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ford, Henry

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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