Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Cathcart, Jim

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Ford, Henry

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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 a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

36.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Armour, P. D.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dane, Frank