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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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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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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Ovid

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Knudsen, William

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Branson, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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