Motivational Quotes

Business

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Dane, Frank

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

18.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Kiam, Victor

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Malek, Fred

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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