Motivational Quotes

Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Business

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Barzan, Gerald

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Galvin, Robert

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, German

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

33.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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

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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