Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Thomas, Dylan

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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

Revson, Charles

13.

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

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

20.

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

George Ade

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

Field, Marshall

22.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

23.

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

Welch, John

25.

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

Warren Buffett

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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

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

29.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

30.

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

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

34.

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

35.

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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

39.

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.

40.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken