Motivational Quotes

Business

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

- Bristol, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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 big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Proverb, American

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Malek, Fred

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Bean, L.L.

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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 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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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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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 a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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.