Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Woolworth, F. W.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

George Ade

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Morley, John

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Basinger, Kim

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Revson, Charles

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.