Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Blair, Tony

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Malek, Fred

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Welch, John

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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.

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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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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.