Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

10.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

11.

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

Hawken, Paul

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

31.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Proverb

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, American

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert