Motivational Quotes

Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

- Ross, Steven J.

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Cardenas, Ruben

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Geneen, Harold S.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

10.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ovid

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

38.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

41.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Every business is built on friendship.