Motivational Quotes

Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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.

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.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

10.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

11.

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

Blair, Tony

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

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

Riorio

15.

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

Little, Royal

17.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

18.

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

Barzan, Gerald

19.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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 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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

25.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

Revson, Charles

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Adolt, H. V.

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

36.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

37.

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

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

40.

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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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.

42.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

49.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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