Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Perot, H. Ross

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Olsen, Kenneth

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Morley, John

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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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

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

17.

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

Thomas, Dylan

18.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Coke, Sir Edward

27.

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

Tara Hunt

28.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

29.

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

Collins, Nathan

30.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

31.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

37.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

38.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.