Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Basinger, Kim

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bond, Alan

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

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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Malek, Fred

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hawken, Paul

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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