Motivational Quotes

Business

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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 generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Blair, Tony

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

Armour, P. D.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

George Ade

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Revson, Charles

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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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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 question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

David Letterman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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