Motivational Quotes

Business

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Cathcart, Jim

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.

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Aldus Manutius

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Walton, Sam