Motivational Quotes

Business

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

- Smith, Roger

Best Quotes about Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mitchell Caplan

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Revson, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Branson, Richard

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Morley, John

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Proverb, German

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Armour, P. D.

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

George Ade

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