Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

Best Quotes about Business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Morley, John

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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

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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Galvin, Robert

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Aldus Manutius

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own