Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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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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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

George Ade

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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

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

Little, Royal

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The business of the country is business.