Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Galvin, Robert

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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

George Ade

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Bond, Alan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Malek, Fred

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.