Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

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

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

Brown, Derby

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

Little, Royal

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

Bean, L.L.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Revson, Charles

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

10.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

11.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

17.

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

Jacobs, Randall

18.

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

19.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

20.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

24.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

26.

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

31.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

32.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

33.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

34.

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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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

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Forbes, B. C.

39.

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

40.

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

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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

Hook, Harold

44.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

46.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

48.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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