Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Brown, Derby

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

10.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

11.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

16.

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

Proverb

17.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Patterson, John H.

19.

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

20.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

21.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

24.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

27.

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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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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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

Barzan, Gerald

33.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

34.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

36.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

49.

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

Ford, Henry