Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Iacocca, Lee

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Galvin, Robert

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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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

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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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's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Ovid

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo