Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Barzan, Gerald

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Patterson, John H.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

11.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Ford, Henry

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

21.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Field, Marshall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bean, L.L.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, German

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Armour, P. D.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

George Ade

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Oscar Wilde