Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dickens, Charles

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Morley, John

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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.

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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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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 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

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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

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Field, Marshall

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