Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

10.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

17.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Branson, Richard

21.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

22.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

Basinger, Kim

24.

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

Warren Buffett

25.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

28.

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

29.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

33.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

34.

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

35.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

36.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Riorio

40.

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

Ogilvy, David

41.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

42.

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

43.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

44.

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

45.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

46.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

47.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

48.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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