Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mitchell Caplan

Best Quotes about Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

David Letterman

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Ovid

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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 don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Revson, Charles

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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 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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 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

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward