Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dahlberg, Edward

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

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

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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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Riorio

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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 find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Proverb, American

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.