Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

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.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Field, Marshall

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

12.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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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

18.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Malek, Fred

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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.