Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Rena, Peter

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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Warren Buffett

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Revson, Charles

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Dickens, Charles

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jacobs, Randall