Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Branson, Richard

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Bond, Alan

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

12.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

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

19.

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

George Ade

20.

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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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.

24.

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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

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

Warren Buffett

34.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

35.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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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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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

44.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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