Motivational Quotes

Business

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riorio

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dane, Frank

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

George Ade

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

David Letterman

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Blake, William

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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