Motivational Quotes

Business

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

- Scrutton, T. L.

Best Quotes about Business

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

21.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Barzan, Gerald

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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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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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

33.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

34.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

David Letterman

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

46.

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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles