Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Branson, Richard

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.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Wang, An

10.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Ovid

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

Manzi, Jim

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bond, Alan

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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.

38.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Armour, P. D.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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