Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Perot, H. Ross

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Branson, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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 the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Shakespeare, William

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin