Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Dane, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Armour, P. D.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Kiam, Victor

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ogilvy, David

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ford, Henry

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

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

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