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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

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

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

Kiam, Victor

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

11.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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 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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

19.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

20.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

24.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

25.

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

Morley, John

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

27.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

37.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Scrutton, T. L.

40.

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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

48.

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

Patterson, John H.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard