Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Adolt, H. V.

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.

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

Morley, John

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

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.

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.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

10.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

19.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

21.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Barzan, Gerald

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

34.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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