Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Cathcart, Jim

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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

Brown, Derby

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

David Letterman

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Ovid

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Revson, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dumas, Alexandre