Motivational Quotes

Business

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Galvin, Robert

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Branson, Richard

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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.

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

Barzan, Gerald

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

10.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

11.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

12.

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

Thomas, Dylan

13.

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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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 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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rena, Peter

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

Forbes, B. C.

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Coke, Sir Edward

44.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

49.

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

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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