Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

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

Revson, Charles

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.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Field, Marshall

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

34.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb

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

Jacobs, Randall