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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

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

Branson, Richard

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

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

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

14.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

15.

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

Jacobs, Randall

16.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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

18.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

19.

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

Hawken, Paul

20.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

21.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

23.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

25.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

29.

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

30.

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

Little, Royal

31.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

33.

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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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

35.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

36.

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

Mitchell Caplan

37.

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

Malek, Fred

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

39.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

42.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

49.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

50.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David