Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Armour, P. D.

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.

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Bond, Alan

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

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

David Letterman

12.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ovid

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

25.

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

Lippmann, Walter

27.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

28.

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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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

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

35.

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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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

37.

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

Dickens, Charles

38.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

39.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

40.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

41.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

42.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

44.

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

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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