Motivational Quotes

Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

- Ross, Steven J.

Best Quotes about Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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.

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

Dane, Frank

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

John Cleese

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

Oscar Wilde

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Kiam, Victor

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Branson, Richard

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert