Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ogilvy, David

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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.

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

Bond, Alan

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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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 have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Walton, Sam

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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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A dinner lubricates business.