Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Walton, Sam

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

George Ade

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William