Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.