Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about 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

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.

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

George Ade

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Patterson, John H.

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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.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Morley, John

23.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Field, Marshall

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

Little, Royal

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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

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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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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland