Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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

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

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Proverb, American

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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.

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Adolt, H. V.

30.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wang, An

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Tara Hunt

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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Blair, Tony

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

David Letterman

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell