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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Bond, Alan

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ovid

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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.

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

David Letterman

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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

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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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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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