Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Proverb, American

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

George Ade

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

David Letterman

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Galvin, Robert

18.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Wang, An

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

Jacobs, Randall

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

37.

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

Blair, Tony

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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.

39.

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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