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

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

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

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

Blair, Tony

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, American

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

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

David Letterman

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Ovid

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

Field, Marshall

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

Walton, Sam

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

Armour, P. D.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

43.

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dane, Frank

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

Jacobs, Randall

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.