Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Walton, Sam

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

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

39.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

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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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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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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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

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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