Motivational Quotes

Business

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dickens, Charles

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Hawken, Paul

10.

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

Knudsen, William

11.

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 worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

14.

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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

George Ade

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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 generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gerber, Michael E.

50.

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