Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Little, Royal

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Field, Marshall

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

10.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

11.

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

Revson, Charles

12.

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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

John Cleese

18.

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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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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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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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hawken, Paul

25.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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

30.

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

31.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Malek, Fred

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Morley, John

38.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen