Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

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

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Malek, Fred

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dane, Frank

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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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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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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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.