Motivational Quotes

Business

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Proverb, American

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

10.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

11.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Malek, Fred

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

Aldus Manutius

18.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Oscar Wilde

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Hawken, Paul

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Warren Buffett

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Tara Hunt

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Bond, Alan

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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