Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

10.

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

11.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

12.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

13.

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

Hawken, Paul

14.

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

15.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

17.

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

Malek, Fred

18.

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

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

Knudsen, William

20.

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 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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

24.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

25.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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

Branson, Richard

27.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

28.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

29.

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

30.

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

Basinger, Kim

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

35.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

37.

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

Ford, Henry

38.

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

39.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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

42.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

43.

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

47.

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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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

50.

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

Bond, Alan