Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Ogilvy, David

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

11.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

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

Adolt, H. V.

19.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

31.

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

George Ade

32.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

34.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

35.

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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

39.

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

Little, Royal

40.

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

41.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.