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

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.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Hawken, Paul

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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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

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

John Cleese

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

Hale, Sir Matthew