Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

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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.

Ford, Henry

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

29.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Field, Marshall

33.

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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Dane, Frank

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

David Letterman

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren