Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Brown, Derby

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

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

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

Bond, Alan

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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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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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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