Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Proverb, German

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Hook, Harold

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Aldus Manutius

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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