Motivational Quotes

Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Manzi, Jim

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Ogilvy, David

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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Ovid

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

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

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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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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 work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Field, Marshall

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Revson, Charles

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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

Patterson, John H.