Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Watson, Thomas J.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Patterson, John H.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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