Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Woolworth, F. W.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

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

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

15.

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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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

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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.

24.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

25.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Galvin, Robert

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

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

32.

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

Adolt, H. V.

33.

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

34.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

39.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

40.

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

Ogilvy, David

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Brown, Derby

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Basinger, Kim