Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Woolworth, F. W.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jacobs, Randall

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Welch, John

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Galvin, Robert

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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.

Ford, Henry

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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