Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Riorio

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

David Letterman

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Hawken, Paul

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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