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

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

Walton, Sam

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

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

Warren Buffett

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Dickens, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Revson, Charles