Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

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

Brown, Derby

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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

Dane, Frank

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

10.

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

Cathcart, Jim

11.

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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Mcnealy, Scott

20.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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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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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

27.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

28.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

30.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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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

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Patterson, John H.

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