Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Field, Marshall

12.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

14.

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

Ovid

15.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

16.

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 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

18.

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

Grove, Andrew

20.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

23.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

24.

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

Manzi, Jim

25.

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

31.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

32.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

Ogilvy, David

34.

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

35.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

40.

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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

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

44.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

45.

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

Proverb, German

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.