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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Little, Royal

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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