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

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Ovid

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

Wilde, Oscar

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

11.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

12.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

13.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

15.

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

Brown, Derby

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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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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

20.

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

David Letterman

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Walton, Sam

28.

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

Patterson, John H.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

30.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

32.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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 your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.