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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Iacocca, Lee

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

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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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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 train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

18.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

19.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Hook, Harold

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

George Ade

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

41.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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.

43.

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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Forbes, B. C.