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

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.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Malek, Fred

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre