Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jacobs, Randall

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

David Letterman

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

Rena, Peter

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Welch, John

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