Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

18.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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