Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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.

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

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Welch, John

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

Proverb, American

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

17.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

18.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Dickens, Charles

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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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.

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Geneen, Harold S.