Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Branson, Richard

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

10.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

17.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Proverb, German

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Walton, Sam

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

29.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.