Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Little, Royal

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Malek, Fred

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

Branson, Richard

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ovid

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

George Ade

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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

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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