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

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Ovid

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Bond, Alan

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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.

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

Warren Buffett

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

George Ade

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Field, Marshall

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb, German