Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

Patterson, John H.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

John Cleese

11.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

20.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

27.

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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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.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

40.

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

Proverb

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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

42.

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

43.

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

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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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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

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

50.

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

Galvin, Robert