Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Morley, John

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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

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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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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.