Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about 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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Riorio

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Blair, Tony

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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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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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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

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

Hook, Harold

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.