Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Morley, John

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

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

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

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

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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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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

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Field, Marshall

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bond, Alan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

David Letterman

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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

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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