Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Olsen, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

Kiam, Victor

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

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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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

George Ade

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Malek, Fred

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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