Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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.

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

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.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Warren Buffett

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Kiam, Victor

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Geneen, Harold S.

17.

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

Armour, P. D.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

24.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

30.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

31.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

33.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

34.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Wang, An

37.

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

Forbes, B. C.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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