Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Ovid

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

Mophatlane, Isaac