Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Olsen, Kenneth

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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 when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

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

Proverb, American

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Kiam, Victor

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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

29.

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

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

Aldus Manutius

31.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

33.

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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

36.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

37.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Oscar Wilde

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Malek, Fred

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

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Ogilvy, David

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