Motivational Quotes

Business

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Armour, P. D.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Revson, Charles

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Warren Buffett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Thomas, Dylan