Motivational Quotes

Business

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

10.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

11.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

12.

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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

17.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

20.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

26.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Proverb

31.

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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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The business of the country is business.