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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
Business Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Business

1.
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

2.
If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
Mophatlane, Isaac

3.
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

4.
Every business is built on friendship.
Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

5.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
Baruch, Bernard M.

6.
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Stuart, Edwin H.

7.
You can't run a business without taking risks.
Drexler, Millard

8.
Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Bierce, Ambrose

9.
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell

10.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Morley, John

11.
'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.
George Ade

12.
If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
Ogilvy, David

13.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Welch, John

14.
A hard thing about business is minding your own

15.
What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
Wilson, Charles E.

16.
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Proverb, American

17.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Rena, Peter

18.
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Jefferson, Thomas

19.
Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
Barzan, Gerald

20.
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

21.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
Riorio

22.
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

23.
The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.
Donovan, Patrick

24.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Ceo, Harold Geneen

25.
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Khrushchev, Nikita

26.
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Geneen, Harold S.

27.
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
Kettering, Charles F.

28.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Patterson, John H.

29.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Dunn, Paul H.

30.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Perot, H. Ross

31.
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

32.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Galvin, Robert

33.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
Ross, Steven J.

35.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

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

37.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

38.
Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Bierce, Ambrose

39.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Geneen, Harold S.

40.
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
Blake, William

41.
The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.
Laura Moncur

42.
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
Smith, Roger

43.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Dickens, Charles

44.
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

45.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Ford, Henry

46.
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

47.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
Little, Royal

48.
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

49.
I buy when other people are selling.
Getty, J. Paul

50.
We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.
Malek, Fred


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