Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Revson, Charles

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Dickens, Charles

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.