Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Field, Marshall

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Aldus Manutius

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Scrutton, T. L.