Motivational Quotes

Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

- Ross, Steven J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Barzan, Gerald

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb

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

Field, Marshall

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Patterson, John H.

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

31.

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

Bond, Alan

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Branson, Richard

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, American

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

Jacobs, Randall

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Blair, Tony

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert