Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hawken, Paul

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Welch, John

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Basinger, Kim

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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 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

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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 compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, German

30.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

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

Armour, P. D.

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Branson, Richard