Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Oscar Wilde

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

10.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

Blair, Tony

12.

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

13.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Ovid

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ogilvy, David

25.

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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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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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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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Dickens, Charles

32.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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 right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

36.

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

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Malek, Fred

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

Field, Marshall

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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