Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Basinger, Kim

Best Quotes about Business

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Hook, Harold

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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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

12.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Ovid

16.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

18.

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

David Letterman

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

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

Little, Royal

29.

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

Malek, Fred

30.

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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

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.

35.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

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

Field, Marshall

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

John Cleese

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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

48.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Forbes, B. C.

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard