Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

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

Jacobs, Randall

11.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

14.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Hook, Harold

18.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

19.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

22.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Revson, Charles

24.

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

25.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

33.

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

34.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

37.

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

Malek, Fred

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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

39.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

40.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Patterson, John H.

43.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

45.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.