Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Revson, Charles

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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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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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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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 dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

Bond, Alan