Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Walton, Sam

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

George Ade

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

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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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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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