Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Cardenas, Ruben

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

George Ade

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Blair, Tony

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bond, Alan

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Forbes, B. C.

37.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter