Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Branson, Richard

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

David Letterman

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Tara Hunt

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Proverb, American

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

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Morley, John

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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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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.