Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Leavitt, Theodore

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Morley, John

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

19.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

David Letterman

21.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Patterson, John H.

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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

30.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

31.

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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

George Ade

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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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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