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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

10.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

14.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

15.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

16.

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

Walton, Sam

17.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

18.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

19.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Hawken, Paul

22.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

23.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

24.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

25.

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

Ogilvy, David

26.

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

Proverb, German

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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.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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.

30.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

31.

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

32.

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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

34.

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

George Ade

35.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aldus Manutius

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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.

43.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Geneen, Harold S.

46.

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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

49.

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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan