Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bond, Alan

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Field, Marshall

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

David Letterman

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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