Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Proverb, American

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Ogilvy, David

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Malek, Fred

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Oscar Wilde

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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