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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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

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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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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