Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Galvin, Robert

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Blair, Tony

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

29.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

30.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Walton, Sam