Motivational Quotes

Business

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

11.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Field, Marshall

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Dane, Frank

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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.

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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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.

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Ogilvy, David

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

44.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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