Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

19.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

20.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Patterson, John H.

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

David Letterman

25.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

26.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

30.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

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

32.

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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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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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

37.

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

40.

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

Dane, Frank

41.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

42.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

43.

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

Knudsen, William

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

46.

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.

47.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

48.

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

Manzi, Jim

50.

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