Motivational Quotes

Business

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

- Bristol, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Ogilvy, David

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Walton, Sam

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Revson, Charles

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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