Motivational Quotes

Business

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Ogilvy, David

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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

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

David Letterman

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

22.

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

Kiam, Victor

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

27.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

31.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

32.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

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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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

40.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

42.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

49.

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

Branson, Richard