Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kiam, Victor

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Revson, Charles

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Knudsen, William

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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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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Walton, Sam

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, American

29.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

31.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

David Letterman

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Wang, An

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.