Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Manzi, Jim

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

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

Bean, L.L.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Kiam, Victor