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

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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Armour, P. D.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

11.

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

Warren Buffett

12.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

13.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

18.

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

19.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

20.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

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

25.

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

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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

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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.

28.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

29.

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

30.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

31.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

32.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

33.

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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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.

36.

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

Galvin, Robert

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

40.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

45.

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

46.

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

Cathcart, Jim

47.

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

Bond, Alan

48.

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