Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Malek, Fred

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Branson, Richard

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

28.

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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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.

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

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