Motivational Quotes

Business

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wang, An

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

Oscar Wilde

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Proverb, American

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Armour, P. D.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Field, Marshall

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

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

Ogilvy, David