Motivational Quotes

Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bean, L.L.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

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

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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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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Blair, Tony

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Walton, Sam

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb, German

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert