Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

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

Onassis, Aristotle

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

George Ade

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

Aldus Manutius

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

20.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

21.

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

25.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Revson, Charles

34.

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

Armour, P. D.

35.

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

36.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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

40.

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

42.

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

43.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.