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

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

11.

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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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

15.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

16.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

17.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

18.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Revson, Charles

24.

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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

30.

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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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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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

39.

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