Motivational Quotes

Business

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

Knudsen, William

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tara Hunt

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

28.

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

Wang, An

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Branson, Richard

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

Proverb, German

44.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis