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

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

David Letterman

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

George Ade

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Blair, Tony

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Revson, Charles

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul