Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Brown, Derby

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dane, Frank

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

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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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

George Ade

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Morley, John

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben