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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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 business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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 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

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

Ogilvy, David

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Patterson, John H.

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Malek, Fred

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Proverb, American

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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