Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mitchell Caplan

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

George Ade

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Cardenas, Ruben

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

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

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Hook, Harold

13.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

15.

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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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

18.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

20.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

23.

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

Ogilvy, David

24.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Revson, Charles

26.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

29.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

33.

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

Kiam, Victor

34.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

40.

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

Galvin, Robert

41.

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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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 work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

44.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

45.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.