Motivational Quotes

Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ogilvy, David

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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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!