Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

13.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

14.

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

15.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

17.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

18.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

22.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Walton, Sam

26.

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

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

31.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

43.

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

Revson, Charles

44.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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