Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Patterson, John H.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill