Motivational Quotes

Business

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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 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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Aldus Manutius

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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