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

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Basinger, Kim

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

10.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

14.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

15.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

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

18.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

19.

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

Riorio

20.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

21.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

22.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

23.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

25.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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.

27.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

28.

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

Ogilvy, David

29.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

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

Proverb, German

32.

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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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

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

35.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

37.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

40.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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.

43.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

44.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

45.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

47.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.