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

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mitchell Caplan

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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

Knudsen, 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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

25.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Warren Buffett

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

33.

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

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Proverb, German

41.

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

Collins, Nathan

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Little, Royal

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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