Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Ovid

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Field, Marshall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Mitchell Caplan

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Location, location, location.