Motivational Quotes

Business

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

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.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

33.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

49.

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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.