Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Hawken, Paul

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Knudsen, William

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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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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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.

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

Kiam, Victor