Motivational Quotes

Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Riorio

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

Bean, L.L.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Walton, Sam

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

Walton, Sam

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Field, Marshall

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Morley, John

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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

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

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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

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan