Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- David Letterman

Best Quotes about Business

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

George Ade

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hook, Harold

10.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Dane, Frank

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ogilvy, David

29.

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

Field, Marshall

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

32.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

David Letterman

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

49.

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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.