Motivational Quotes

Business

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

- Luce, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jacobs, Randall

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cardenas, Ruben

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Knudsen, William

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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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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

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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.