Motivational Quotes

Business

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

- Mitchell Caplan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Knudsen, William

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Ogilvy, David

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

George Ade

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

Proverb

13.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

17.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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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 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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb, American

24.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

28.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Malek, Fred

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Walton, Sam

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