Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

12.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

19.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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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 commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

33.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Aldus Manutius

37.

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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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

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