Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Field, Marshall

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Proverb, American

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Ogilvy, David

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

David Letterman

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

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

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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