Motivational Quotes

Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Best Quotes about Business

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

Little, Royal

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Bond, Alan

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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