Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Thomas, Dylan

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Morley, John

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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