Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about 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.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Ovid

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Hawken, Paul

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge