Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Walton, Sam

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

Ogilvy, David

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

David Letterman

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

18.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

20.

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

Ogilvy, David

21.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

25.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Leavitt, Theodore

28.

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

Walton, Sam

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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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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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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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