Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

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.

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

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Patterson, John H.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Knudsen, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Malek, Fred

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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 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

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

Bond, Alan

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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 find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Oscar Wilde

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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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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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

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose