Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Branson, Richard

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

Olsen, Kenneth

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Knudsen, William

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Revson, Charles

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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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.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ovid

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.