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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

10.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

18.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Welch, John

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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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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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

31.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

35.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

40.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Aldus Manutius

42.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

43.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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