Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Tara Hunt

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

Dane, Frank

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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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 can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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A dinner lubricates business.