Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Grove, Andrew

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Woolworth, F. W.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Kiam, Victor

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.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Malek, Fred

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Little, Royal

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

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

Revson, Charles

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

George Ade

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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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

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac