Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Business

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

Patterson, John H.

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Coke, Sir Edward

11.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

12.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

16.

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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

George Ade

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

Warren Buffett

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

24.

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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Brown, Derby

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

40.

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

Tara Hunt

43.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

44.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

46.

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

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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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