Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Cathcart, Jim

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.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Scrutton, T. L.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

David Letterman

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Galvin, Robert

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Proverb, German

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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