Motivational Quotes

Business

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

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

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Warren Buffett

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

12.

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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

15.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Iacocca, Lee

17.

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.

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

20.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

21.

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

Revson, Charles

22.

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

Kiam, Victor

23.

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.

24.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

25.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

29.

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

30.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

33.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

34.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Tara Hunt

40.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

41.

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

Bond, Alan

42.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Armour, P. D.

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Blair, Tony

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

Brown, Derby