Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Collins, Nathan

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.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Revson, 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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Ovid

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Every business is built on friendship.