Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Welch, John

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Dane, Frank

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Riorio

13.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

14.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

David Letterman

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

Tara Hunt

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hook, Harold

23.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Ogilvy, David

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

32.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

33.

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

Field, Marshall

34.

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

35.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin