Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

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

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

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

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Oscar Wilde

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Proverb

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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 a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

David Letterman

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Little, Royal

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Patterson, John H.

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