Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Bond, Alan

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Malek, Fred

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Riorio

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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 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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Revson, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

David Letterman

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

Collins, Nathan

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.