Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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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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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

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

Walton, Sam

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Morley, John

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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