Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

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

Welch, John

A hard thing about business is minding your own

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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 have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, German

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

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

Kiam, Victor

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Onassis, Aristotle