Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb, German

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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.

27.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Proverb, American

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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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

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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