Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Proverb

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

Grove, Andrew

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Jacobs, Randall

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

13.

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

Armour, P. D.

14.

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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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

16.

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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cardenas, Ruben

28.

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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

30.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

31.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

32.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

33.

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

Mitchell Caplan

36.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

40.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

43.

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

Little, Royal

44.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

45.

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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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.