Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

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

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

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

Ovid

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Galvin, Robert

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Tara Hunt