Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Revson, Charles

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

Tara Hunt

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.