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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Knudsen, William

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

10.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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 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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

George Ade

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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 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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Ogilvy, David

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

David Letterman

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Galvin, Robert

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin