Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Malek, Fred

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

12.

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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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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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

20.

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.

21.

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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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

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

David Letterman

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

Wang, An

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

Bond, Alan

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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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

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Ovid

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

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

50.

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