Motivational Quotes

Business

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

12.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

18.

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

Ovid

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

Basinger, Kim

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

21.

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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

23.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Warren Buffett

27.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

32.

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

Tara Hunt

33.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

34.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Shakespeare, William

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.