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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Riorio

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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 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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Little, Royal

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall