Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kiam, Victor

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

David Letterman

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

George Ade

10.

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

11.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

12.

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

Barzan, Gerald

13.

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

14.

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

John Cleese

15.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

16.

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

Bean, L.L.

17.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

20.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

21.

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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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.

23.

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 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

25.

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

26.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

27.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

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

29.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

32.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

33.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

34.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

38.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

40.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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.

42.

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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Galvin, Robert

47.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

48.

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

Blair, Tony

49.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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.