Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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

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.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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

Malek, Fred

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Revson, Charles

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Warren Buffett

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Buffett, Warren

37.

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

Bond, Alan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Branson, Richard

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade