Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

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

Little, Royal

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.

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Wang, An

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Malek, Fred

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

37.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Galvin, Robert

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, American