Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dahlberg, Edward

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Hawken, Paul

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Manzi, Jim

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Hook, Harold

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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 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