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

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

Ovid

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

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Tara Hunt

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