Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Proverb, American

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.