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

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Basinger, Kim

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.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ogilvy, David

12.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

20.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

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

Bond, Alan

22.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

24.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Adolt, H. V.

39.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

40.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

41.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Tara Hunt

50.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin