Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

Best Quotes about Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

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

Malek, Fred

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Morley, John

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

Tara Hunt

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Galvin, Robert

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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 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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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 can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Blair, Tony

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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