Motivational Quotes

Business

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Armour, P. D.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Proverb, German

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Bond, Alan

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

Kiam, Victor

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Shakespeare, William

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dane, Frank

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

Warren Buffett

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles