Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

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

David Letterman

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

12.

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

13.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

George Ade

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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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

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Revson, Charles

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blair, Tony

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan