Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Branson, Richard

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

Walton, Sam

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

11.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

29.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Knudsen, William

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

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

37.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Galvin, Robert

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kiam, Victor

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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

48.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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