Motivational Quotes

Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Morley, John

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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.

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Bond, Alan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

David Letterman

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Cathcart, Jim