Motivational Quotes

Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Thomas, Dylan

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Knudsen, William

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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 no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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

Blair, Tony

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

George Ade

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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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

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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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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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