Motivational Quotes

Business

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Proverb

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

David Letterman

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Patterson, John H.

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.

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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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.

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Kiam, Victor

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Field, Marshall

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Ogilvy, David

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Hawken, Paul

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.