Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

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

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

Ogilvy, David

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

10.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Proverb, German

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

25.

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.