Motivational Quotes

Business

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Field, Marshall

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Warren Buffett

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

David Letterman

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

Blair, Tony

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Dane, Frank

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy