Motivational Quotes

Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Forbes, B. C.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riklis, Meshulam

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Proverb

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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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!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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