Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Collins, Nathan

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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.

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.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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 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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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

Proverb, German

23.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

Wang, An

27.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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

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

David Letterman

34.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Malek, Fred

39.

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

40.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

42.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Tara Hunt

44.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.