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

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

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.

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

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Barzan, Gerald

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Little, Royal

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

12.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ovid

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Malek, Fred

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

23.

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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Kiam, Victor

40.

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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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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