Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Galvin, Robert

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Dickens, Charles

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Hawken, Paul

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.