Motivational Quotes

Business

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

- Jacobs, Randall

Best Quotes about Business

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

John Cleese

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Collins, Nathan

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

19.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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.

27.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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.

40.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Iacocca, Lee

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Proverb, German

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall