Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Forbes, B. C.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Kiam, Victor

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.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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

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

Malek, Fred

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

George Ade

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Warren Buffett

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Tara Hunt

34.

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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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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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

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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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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Brown, Derby

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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.