Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Knudsen, William

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

Jacobs, Randall

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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

George Ade

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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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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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It's the economy, stupid.