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

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

Proverb

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

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

Grove, Andrew

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

David Letterman

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Hook, Harold

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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