Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Basinger, Kim

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

15.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

20.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

21.

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

Patterson, John H.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

24.

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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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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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

27.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

28.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Hook, Harold

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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

32.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Malek, Fred

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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

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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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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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