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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Proverb

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Thomas, Dylan

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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