Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Collins, Nathan

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Bean, L.L.

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

10.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

11.

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

Bond, Alan

12.

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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

16.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

20.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

22.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

23.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

25.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Basinger, Kim

28.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

32.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

33.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

36.

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

Ogilvy, David

37.

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.

38.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

42.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every business is built on friendship.