Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Ogilvy, David

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, American

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

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Ovid

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

Brown, Derby

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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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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Proverb, German

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Warren Buffett

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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