Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Business

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

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.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Armour, P. D.

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

David Letterman

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

Ovid

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Morley, John

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

Hook, Harold

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Proverb

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason