Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jurgen Schrempp

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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 can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Malek, Fred

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Ogilvy, David

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Manzi, Jim

41.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Field, Marshall

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

Branson, Richard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Hawken, Paul

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Jefferson, Thomas