Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Morley, John

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Proverb, German

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

35.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Ovid

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Branson, Richard