Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Tara Hunt

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

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

20.

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

Ovid

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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

29.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Armour, P. D.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Branson, Richard

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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