Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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.

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.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Proverb

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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 not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Jacobs, Randall