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

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

Welch, John

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Knudsen, William

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

10.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Branson, Richard

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

John Cleese

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

30.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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

48.

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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry