Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Blair, Tony

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tara Hunt

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Malek, Fred

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

31.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, German

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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

38.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

40.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

41.

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

Basinger, Kim

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo