Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Revson, Charles

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

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.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

11.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

12.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

14.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

22.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

32.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

33.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

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

Malek, Fred

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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

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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell