Motivational Quotes

Business

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Business

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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.

11.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

12.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

15.

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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

18.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

19.

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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

22.

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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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

27.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

31.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

32.

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

Tara Hunt

33.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

34.

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

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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 commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin