Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Armour, P. D.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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

George Ade

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Onassis, Aristotle