Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Franklin, Benjamin

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Dane, Frank

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

David Letterman

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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 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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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Bond, Alan

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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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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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