Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Dane, Frank

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Ovid

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Morley, John

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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.