Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Revson, Charles

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Cathcart, Jim

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.