Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ovid

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Bean, L.L.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Malek, Fred

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

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Proverb, American

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

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Grove, Andrew

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Hawken, Paul

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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.