Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Aldus Manutius

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Morley, John

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

David Letterman

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo