Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Cathcart, Jim

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

George Ade

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

Proverb, German

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Branson, Richard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Malek, Fred

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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

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

David Letterman

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

Tara Hunt

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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