Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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

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.

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

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb, German

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ovid

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.