Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Brown, Derby

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Revson, Charles

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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 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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles