Motivational Quotes

Business

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

- Hale, Sir Matthew

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Barzan, Gerald

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Proverb

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Revson, Charles

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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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 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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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