Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Welch, John

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

11.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

18.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

David Letterman

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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

41.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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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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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.