Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Armour, P. D.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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 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

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Proverb

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.