Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Welch, John

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Collins, Nathan

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, John

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Wang, An

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Malek, Fred

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

Tara Hunt

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

Bond, Alan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dane, Frank

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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