Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ogilvy, David

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Ford, Henry