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

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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Walton, Sam

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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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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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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

David Letterman

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

Grove, Andrew

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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