Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, American

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

13.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

14.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

15.

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

16.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

18.

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

Proverb, German

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

20.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

24.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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.

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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

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

George Ade

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray