Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Blair, Tony

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

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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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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

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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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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Bond, Alan

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

John Cleese

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

Proverb

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Ogilvy, David

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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