Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Ovid

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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.

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

Tara Hunt

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Blair, Tony

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

Shakespeare, William

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Revson, Charles

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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 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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew