Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

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

George Ade

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Malek, Fred

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Morley, John

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Leavitt, Theodore