Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Derby

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

10.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

14.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

15.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

16.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

17.

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.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

18.

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

John Cleese

19.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

20.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

21.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

23.

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

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

25.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

30.

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

31.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

32.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

33.

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

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

George Ade

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

40.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

41.

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

Proverb

42.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

43.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

44.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.