Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

10.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Dane, Frank

14.

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

Revson, Charles

17.

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

Branson, Richard

18.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Knudsen, William

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Tara Hunt

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

45.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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