Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Armour, P. D.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Blair, Tony

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bond, Alan

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

Proverb, German

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

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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, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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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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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