Motivational Quotes

Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

18.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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

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

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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.

28.

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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