Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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

Ovid

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

Nevill, Dorothy

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

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

Proverb, German

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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.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Blair, Tony

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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

33.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Morley, John

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aldus Manutius

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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