Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Tara Hunt

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Dane, Frank

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.