Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Aldus Manutius

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Revson, Charles

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

David Letterman

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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 commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Armour, P. D.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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