Quotes about business

"There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch."

Addison, Joseph on business
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"We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses."

Adolt, H. V. on business
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"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

Allen, Fred A. on business
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"Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article."

Armour, P. D. on business
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"Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust."

Bamford, Joe on business
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"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."

Baruch, Bernard M. on business
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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. on business
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"Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be"

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

Basinger, Kim on business
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"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation."

Baudelaire, Charles on business
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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 on business
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"No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied."

Bean, L.L. on business
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"Business is more exciting than any game."

Beaverbrook, Lord on business
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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 on business
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"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!"

Bernbach, William on business
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"Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

Bierce, Ambrose on business
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"Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat."

Bierce, Ambrose on business
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"The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it."

Billings, Josh on business
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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."

Blair, Tony on business
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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 on business
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"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

Blanchard, Ken on business
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."

Bond, Alan on business
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"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 on business
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."

Branson, Richard on business
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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 on business
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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 on business
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."

Buffett, Warren on business
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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 on business
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"It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."

Burke, Edmund on business
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"What helps people, helps business."

Burnett, Leo on business
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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 on business
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"You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board."

Cardenas, Ruben on business
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"Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed"

Carlson, Curtis on business
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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 on business
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"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."

Cathcart, Jim on business
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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

Ceo, Harold Geneen on business
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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 on business
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"No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else."

Chesterfield, Lord on business
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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 on business
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"It's the economy, stupid."

Clinton, Bill on business
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