Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Field, Marshall

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

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.

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

Basinger, Kim

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Jurgen Schrempp

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

11.

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

12.

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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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

17.

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

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

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

Malek, Fred

20.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

22.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

23.

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

Ogilvy, David

24.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Welch, John

27.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

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.

30.

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

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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

32.

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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

34.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

35.

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.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

38.

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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

40.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

47.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

48.

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

George Ade

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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