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

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

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Mcnealy, Scott

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hawken, Paul

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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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

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

David Letterman

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

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

34.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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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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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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

41.

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

Barzan, Gerald

42.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Field, Marshall

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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