Motivational Quotes

Business

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

10.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

11.

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

Tara Hunt

12.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

13.

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

George Ade

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb

24.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

35.

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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Morley, John

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.