Motivational Quotes

Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

- Harvey-Jones, John

Best Quotes about Business

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Riklis, Meshulam

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Blair, Tony

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Ogilvy, David

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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.

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

Revson, 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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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