Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Hook, Harold

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Wang, An

18.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

25.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

30.

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

Galvin, Robert

31.

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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Proverb

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Welch, John

41.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius