Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Adolt, H. V.

12.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

David Letterman

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

George Ade

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Warren Buffett

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Few great men could pass personal.