Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Adolt, H. V.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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

11.

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

Forbes, B. C.

12.

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

Malek, Fred

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

15.

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

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

17.

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

Kiam, Victor

18.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

19.

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

20.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

21.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

23.

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

George Ade

24.

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

Revson, Charles

25.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

26.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

30.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

31.

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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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

33.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

34.

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

David Letterman

35.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

43.

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

Armour, P. D.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.