Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Kiam, Victor

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Shakespeare, William

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

12.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

13.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

14.

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

Cathcart, Jim

16.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

Walton, Sam

19.

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

20.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

21.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Manzi, Jim

24.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

25.

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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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 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.

28.

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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

Brown, Derby

31.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

32.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

36.

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

37.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

40.

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

41.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

44.

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

Bean, L.L.

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

49.

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

Basinger, Kim

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows