Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Oscar Wilde

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, American

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Kiam, Victor

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Field, Marshall

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Dane, Frank

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

John Cleese