Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Kiam, Victor

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Dane, Frank

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Tara Hunt

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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