Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ford, Henry

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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

11.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Malek, Fred

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

39.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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 generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

48.

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim