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

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Blair, Tony

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

Revson, Charles

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Galvin, Robert

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Basinger, Kim

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hook, Harold

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

David Letterman

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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

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Tara Hunt

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

Proverb, American

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