Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Aldus Manutius

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Manzi, Jim

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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 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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Proverb

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.