Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Field, Marshall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hawken, Paul

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Armour, P. D.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Oscar Wilde