Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bond, Alan

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

12.

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

Little, Royal

13.

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

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Gerber, Michael E.

17.

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

18.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

20.

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

Barzan, Gerald

21.

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.

22.

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

Riorio

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

David Letterman

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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

28.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

29.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

30.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

31.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

32.

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

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

35.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

36.

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

Patterson, John H.

37.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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

39.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

40.

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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Galvin, Robert

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

50.

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