Motivational Quotes

Business

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

- Manzi, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

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

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

David Letterman

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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

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Branson, Richard

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Revson, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, German

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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.