Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ford, Henry

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

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

10.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

11.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

13.

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

Walton, Sam

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

18.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

19.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

25.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

26.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Basinger, Kim

29.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

30.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

31.

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

32.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

33.

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

34.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

35.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

36.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

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.

40.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

42.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

43.

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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb

48.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Welch, John