Motivational Quotes

Business

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Business

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

Basinger, Kim

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 hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

10.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

11.

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

Ogilvy, David

12.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

13.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

14.

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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

17.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

18.

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

George Ade

21.

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

Iacocca, Lee

22.

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

Adolt, H. V.

23.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

25.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

26.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Morley, John

28.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

29.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

30.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

31.

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

33.

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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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

35.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Walton, Sam

38.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

39.

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.

40.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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