Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dane, Frank

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Riorio

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

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb, German

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Manzi, Jim

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Welch, John

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Shakespeare, William

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William