Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about 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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kiam, Victor

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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 more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Tara Hunt

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

George Ade

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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 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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Walton, Sam

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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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray