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

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Field, Marshall

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bond, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb

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

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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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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Hawken, Paul

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Armour, P. D.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Wilson, Charles E.