Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riorio

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

Dumas, Alexandre

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Malek, Fred

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

George Ade

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.