Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Little, Royal

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Walton, Sam

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

10.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

24.

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

John Cleese

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Galvin, Robert

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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