Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

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

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

Hawken, Paul

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Aldus Manutius

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Field, Marshall

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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