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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Basinger, Kim

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

11.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Blair, Tony

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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