Motivational Quotes

Business

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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

17.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hawken, Paul

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

31.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Branson, Richard

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Proverb