Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Warren Buffett

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.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

George Ade

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray