Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Revson, Charles

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Iacocca, Lee

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Dane, Frank

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

Patterson, John H.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Aldus Manutius

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Galvin, Robert

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

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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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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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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

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Tara Hunt

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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

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, American

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim