Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb, American

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Adolt, H. V.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Morley, John

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Hawken, Paul

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

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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