Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Onassis, Aristotle

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Little, Royal

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

Ogilvy, David

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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

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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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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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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Revson, Charles

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.