Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Manzi, Jim

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.

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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Malek, Fred

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Proverb, American

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Patterson, John H.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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