Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Business

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Tara Hunt

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Revson, Charles

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

Brown, Derby

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Malek, Fred

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Morley, John

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ogilvy, David

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Branson, Richard