Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hook, Harold

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

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

George Ade

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

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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

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Morley, John

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