Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

David Letterman

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Ade

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dane, Frank

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Nevill, Dorothy