Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Brown, Derby

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Kiam, Victor

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Branson, Richard

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.

Smith, Adam

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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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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.