Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

13.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

14.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

21.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

22.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

24.

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

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

26.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

28.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

29.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

31.

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

Malek, Fred

32.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

33.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

38.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

40.

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