Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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.

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Aldus Manutius

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bond, Alan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

19.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Blair, Tony

40.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

41.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

43.

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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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