Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Malek, Fred

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.