Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

12.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

15.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

17.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

18.

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

25.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Thomas, Dylan

29.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

30.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

33.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

40.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

42.

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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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Bond, Alan

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

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, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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