Motivational Quotes

Business

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Proverb, German

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

George Ade

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Galvin, Robert

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.