Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

Patterson, John H.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Blair, Tony

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Bond, Alan

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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 business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Malek, Fred

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

37.

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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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