Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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

Proverb, German

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Warren Buffett

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

Beene, Geoffrey

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Morley, John

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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Ovid

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Revson, Charles

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