Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

10.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

15.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

22.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

24.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Riorio

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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

27.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

28.

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

Thomas, Dylan

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

32.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

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.

35.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

36.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

37.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

38.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

39.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

40.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

42.

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

43.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Morley, John

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Collins, Nathan

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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