Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Business

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Blair, Tony

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Armour, P. D.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.