Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Nevill, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Business

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Revson, Charles

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Galvin, Robert

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

11.

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

12.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

14.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

15.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

16.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Blair, Tony

19.

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

20.

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

Walton, Sam

21.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

22.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

23.

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

Basinger, Kim

24.

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

Grove, Andrew

25.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

26.

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

27.

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

David Letterman

28.

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

29.

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

Jacobs, Randall

30.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

31.

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

Patterson, John H.

32.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

33.

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

Rena, Peter

34.

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

George Ade

35.

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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

38.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

39.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

40.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

41.

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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

43.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

44.

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

45.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Armour, P. D.