Motivational Quotes

Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

- Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Best Quotes about Business

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Ogilvy, David

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 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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Dane, Frank

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.