Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hook, Harold

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Patterson, John H.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

George Ade

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

22.

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.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Walton, Sam

28.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Revson, Charles

34.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Armour, P. D.

37.

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

Malek, Fred

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Thomas, Dylan

40.

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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Riorio

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

Cardenas, Ruben

49.

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.