Motivational Quotes

Business

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

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

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Malek, Fred

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

36.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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

George Ade

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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

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.