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

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Rena, Peter

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Proverb, German

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Proverb, American

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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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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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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