Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Brown, Derby

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

Ovid

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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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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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

16.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

35.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Rena, Peter

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows