Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Field, Marshall

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Malek, Fred

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

Proverb

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, 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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Ovid

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.