Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Walton, Sam

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

10.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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.

14.

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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

18.

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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

20.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

21.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

23.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

24.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

26.

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

Armour, P. D.

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

29.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

30.

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

John Cleese

31.

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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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

34.

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

Revson, Charles

35.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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.

37.

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

Blair, Tony

38.

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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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.

40.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

41.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.