Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Armour, P. D.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

A hard thing about business is minding your own

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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 or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Ogilvy, David

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Branson, Richard

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Basinger, Kim

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 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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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 much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ovid

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.