Motivational Quotes

Business

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Armour, P. D.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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.

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Jacobs, Randall

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

43.

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

Bond, Alan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.