Motivational Quotes

Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Business

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Proverb

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

11.

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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

14.

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'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

18.

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

19.

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

Bond, Alan

20.

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

21.

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

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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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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

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Ford, Henry

26.

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

Malek, Fred

27.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Armour, P. D.

29.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

31.

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

32.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

33.

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

34.

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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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

36.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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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

48.

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