Motivational Quotes

Business

Location, location, location.

- Dillard, William

Best Quotes about Business

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Dickens, Charles

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Welch, John

10.

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

11.

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

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

18.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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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

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

23.

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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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

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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

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

30.

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

31.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

32.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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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

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

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

48.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

49.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.