Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Ogilvy, David

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dahlberg, Edward

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

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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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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

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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

34.

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

Barzan, Gerald

35.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

40.

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

Wang, An

41.

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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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

David Letterman

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.