Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

10.

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

Kiam, Victor

11.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

12.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

13.

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

Warren Buffett

14.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

20.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

22.

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

23.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

25.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

27.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

29.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

30.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

31.

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

Aldus Manutius

32.

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

33.

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

Barzan, Gerald

34.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

35.

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

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

40.

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

41.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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

46.

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

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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