Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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.

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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

George Ade

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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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.