Motivational Quotes

Business

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cardenas, Ruben

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Little, Royal

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

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Branson, Richard

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Ovid

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

Jacobs, Randall

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Field, Marshall

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Proverb

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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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