Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

George Ade

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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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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

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

Ovid

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

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Little, Royal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Bond, Alan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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