Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

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

David Letterman

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

35.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Armour, P. D.

43.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

46.

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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin