Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Revson, Charles

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

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

Walton, Sam

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Beene, Geoffrey

10.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

11.

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

John Cleese

12.

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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

14.

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

15.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Walton, Sam

18.

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

Perot, H. Ross

19.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

20.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

21.

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

Manzi, Jim

22.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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

25.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

26.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

30.

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

31.

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

Ogilvy, David

33.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

34.

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

35.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

40.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

41.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ovid

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.