Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Revson, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

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

Ford, Henry

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

10.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

11.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

12.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Morley, John

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Field, Marshall

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

David Letterman

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Tara Hunt

31.

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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

40.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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.