Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Field, Marshall

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

Warren Buffett

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, 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.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

22.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Morley, John

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Branson, Richard

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Proverb, American

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Watson, Thomas J.