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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

12.

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

Proverb, German

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Ogilvy, David

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

44.

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis