Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Collins, Nathan

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Proverb, American

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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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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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

26.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Ogilvy, David

29.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

30.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Rena, Peter

34.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

35.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

37.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

40.

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

41.

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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

44.

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

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

David Letterman

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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.