Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Ogilvy, David

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Armour, P. D.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb, German

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Malek, Fred

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

19.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

20.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

34.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Ovid

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

47.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry