Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

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

Geneen, Harold S.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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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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 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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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

Armour, P. D.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen