Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

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

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, American

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Proverb, German

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Armour, P. D.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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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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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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 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