Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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.

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Aldus Manutius

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Proverb, American

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

Field, Marshall

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Bond, Alan

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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 most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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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