Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Hawken, Paul

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Revson, Charles

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Walton, Sam

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Tara Hunt

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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