Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Malek, Fred

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

George Ade

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

Walton, Sam

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Proverb, German

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb, American

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Thomas, Dylan

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Manzi, Jim

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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.