Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dane, Frank

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

Onassis, Aristotle

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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 worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Walton, Sam

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

Bond, Alan

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

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

Revson, Charles

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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