Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

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

Little, Royal

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Revson, Charles

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Blair, Tony

10.

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

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Aldus Manutius

18.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

20.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

21.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

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

25.

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

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

29.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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.

31.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

32.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Brown, Derby

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Adolt, H. V.

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

40.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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A hard thing about business is minding your own