Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Ovid

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Morley, John

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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 almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Hawken, Paul

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Malek, Fred

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

Shakespeare, William

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross