Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

17.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

David Letterman

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

32.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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