Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Dane, Frank

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter 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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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