Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Scrutton, T. L.

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ogilvy, David

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Beene, Geoffrey

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

13.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Woolworth, F. W.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

20.

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

George Ade

21.

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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

26.

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

Revson, Charles

30.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

31.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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.

33.

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

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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

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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

40.

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

Proverb, American

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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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

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Manzi, Jim