Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Manzi, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Manzi, Jim

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Armour, P. D.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Revson, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, B. C.