Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Tara Hunt

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.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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 business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Malek, Fred

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Galvin, Robert

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

George Ade

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