Motivational Quotes

Business

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

- David M. Ogilvy

Best Quotes about Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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.

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Morley, John

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Warren Buffett

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Walton, Sam

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Kiam, Victor

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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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.