Motivational Quotes

Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Welch, John

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

Knudsen, William

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Dane, Frank

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Revson, Charles

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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

43.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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