Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Little, Royal

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

11.

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

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

16.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

18.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

19.

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

Grove, Andrew

20.

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

21.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Proverb

25.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

26.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Mitchell Caplan

29.

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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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

31.

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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

34.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

48.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin