Motivational Quotes

Business

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Kiam, Victor

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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

David Letterman

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

13.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Proverb

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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.

35.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren