Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Proverb

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Warren Buffett

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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.