Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

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

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Dane, Frank

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Revson, Charles

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

Jacobs, Randall

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

11.

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

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Ogilvy, David

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

20.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

21.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.