Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Proverb, German

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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