Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Proverb, German

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

George Ade

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aldus Manutius

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Branson, Richard

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Geneen, Harold S.