Motivational Quotes

Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Brown, Derby

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ford, Henry

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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 is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Revson, Charles

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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