Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Olsen, Kenneth

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Barzan, Gerald

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

David Letterman

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, 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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

George Ade

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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