Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wang, An

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

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

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

Malek, Fred

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Warren Buffett

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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 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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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 simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce