Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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

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

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Walton, Sam

10.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

12.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

13.

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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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 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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

17.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Dane, Frank

20.

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

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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

22.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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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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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

38.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Field, Marshall

40.

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

Cathcart, Jim

41.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

42.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

43.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

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

47.

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.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

49.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William