Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Collins, Nathan

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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.

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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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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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

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dane, Frank

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

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

Little, Royal

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You can't run a business without taking risks.