Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Little, Royal

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dickens, Charles

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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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

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Tara Hunt

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

31.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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